Episcopalians: Giving the Rib a Ribbing

Eve was made out of Adam's rib. Literal acceptance of such Biblical
statements is the hallmark of fundamentalism, and south Georgia is a
stronghold of it. Last week twelve Episcopal bishops from as far away
as Montana launched a "Bishops' Crusade for Christ" in south
Georgia, attacking "anthropoid religion," as H. L. Mencken
used to call it.

In what the Rt. Rev. Albert Rhett Stuart, Episcopal Bishop of Georgia,
said was only the beginning of a year long evangelizing drive, each of
the bishops preached in one of twelve towns of the diocese of...